General Objectives of teaching in terms of expe-cted results of learning |
1. Knowledge and understanding: The student will acquire specific skills in the field of economic geography of tourism which allow him to understand the dynamics of tourist markets and companies operating in the tourist sector, by testing their impact on the territory. 2. Applying knowledge and understanding: the student will be able to apply the analytical and conceptual tools of the geography of tourism in the fields of territorial programming, planning and management. In addition to this, the student will be able to use the tools of analysis and design of field projects in order to promote the development of products and itineraries with the support of appropriate technological instruments such as GIS and other softwares. 3. Making judgments: the student will be able to collect, process and interpret quantitative and qualitative data, aimed at the evaluation of tourism systems and the impact of tourism in the context of sustainability. The student can then systematically organize these assessments in an articulated reflection on specific local situations. 4. Communication skills: The student will be able to transfer to others, with a full command of technical language, information and assessments about tourism systems and related local economic contexts. 5. Learning skills: after a gradual learning process coherent with the master’s degree course, at the end of the lectures the student will have acquired the necessary knowledge to deepen and integrate the skills and knowledge already achieved during the firt study cycle with the specific skills of tourism geography.
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Topics |
Reference text |
1. *General topics of Geography of Tourism: the relationship between tourism and territory
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Text 1: chapters 1-2-3
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*2. Local tourist supply systems and tourist policies
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Text 1: chapters 4-5
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3. *Tourist districts |
Text 1: chapter 6 |
4. * Cultural heritage |
Text 1: chapter 7 |
5. *Tourist marketing and destination branding |
text 1: chapter 8 |
6. *Tourism as a cohesion factor |
text 1: chapter 9 |
7. seminar |
provided after the seminar |
8. seminar |
provided after the seminar |
9. fieldwork (3 h. long) |
location to be chosen |
10. *Ecotourism: italian case studies |
text 2: chapters 4,5,7 |
11. *rural and mountain tourism |
text 2: chapter 11 |
12. *cultural tourism |
text 2: chapter 10,13 |
13. *Sport tourism |
text 2: chapter 14 |
14: *food and wine tourism |
text 2: chapter 3,8 |
15: *Tourism in Sicily, case studies |
text 2: chapters 1-2 |
16. seminar |
provided after the seminar |
17 seminar |
provided after the seminar |
18. fieldwork (3 h long) |
location to be chosen |
19: *Introduction to film-induced tourism: Cinema and Geography |
text 3: chapter 1 |
20. *Cinema and territory |
text 3: chapter 2 |
21. *cinematic places: the location |
Text 3: chapter 3 |
22. *cinema as a tool of territorial marketing |
text 3: chapter 4 |
23. *International case studies |
text 3: chapters 3-5 |
24. *Cinema and film tourism in Sicily |
text 3: chapters 6,7,8,9,10 |
25. Seminar |
provided after the seminar |
26. Seminar |
provided after the seminar |
27. Fieldwork (3 h long) |
location to be chosen |
28. Fieldwork (3h long) |
location to be chosen |
1. Bencardino F., Prezioso M., Geografia del turismo, MacGraw Hill, Milano, 2007
2. Cannizzaro S., Per una Geografia del Turismo, Patron, Bologna, 2011
3. Nicosia E., Cineturismo e territorio, Patron, Bologna, 2012
4. Cusimano G., Il turismo nelle/delle destinazioni, Patron, Bologna, 2015